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61) War
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Formats
Description
Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
62) D-Day 360
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It D-Day back to its raw data to reveal how the odds of victory, in the greatest gamble of World War II, swung on what happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline. Data gathered though forensic laser scanning, 3D computer modeling, and eye-witness accounts bring the battlefield to life as never before.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxv, 615 p., [32] p. of plates : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"A chronicle of the horrific final year of the Pacific war. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the victory would be achieved remained to be seen. Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the key figures--MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailors--American, British, Russian, Chinese,...
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxvi, 493 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 15
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
After arriving in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1776, time travelers Joe, Fred, and Samantha inspire General George Washington, "the man on the one dollar bill," to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, that will change the course of the Revolutionary War.
69) Submission
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the...
Publisher
Distriuted exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (12 hr., 48 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The groundbreaking Combat! offers a gritty, unflinching look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) maps, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies’ top battlefield...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
350 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
This classic bestseller--back in print to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day--offers a brilliant, authentic, gripping account of the hours that preceded and followed the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 atlas (255 p.) : ill. (some col.), col. maps, 35 cm.
Description
Charts the ebb and flow of the war between the North and the South with 110 maps, both vintage battle maps and vivid recreations, and includes over 320 documentary photos, battlefield sketches, paintings, and artifacts that bear eyewitness testimony to the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; cm
Description
"With the threat of Mussolini?s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster?s household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie?s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals...
76) We were soldiers
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
Author
Formats
Description
From the Western frontier to the battlefields of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Franklin, Petersburg, and Richmond, Grant saw the war from the front lines and made the decisions that affected lives on a day-to-day basis. His writings provide a revealing look into the life of the commander in chief of the Union army as well as the seminal eyewitness account of the War between the States.
The Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is a popular abridgment of...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (268 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1: Produced by the Allied military during 1944-1945 as a permanent visual record of the campaigns in Europe. Covers every major engagement from D-Day to the fall of Berlin. The true glory: Widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made and utilized the footage of combat cameramen from nine nations. From Italy to D-Day: Covers the war in Europe from July 1943 to June 1944 and concentrates on the land operations of the Western...
79) The Mexican war
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
240 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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